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1970-1979
[Alfonso Ramos Band plays for a wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of the Alfonso Ramos Band playing at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood of Austin. The band includes saxophone, drums, bongo drum, trombone, and trumpet. A man in tan suit is singing or talking into the microphone as other band members talk or wait. Five little girls, some wearing white dresses, and two little boys sit on the edge of the stage and watch the dancers. Women, wearing foral bridesmaid dresses, dance with men in suits.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125005/
[Bouquet toss with bridesmaids and female guests at a wedding at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of a group of women, some with outstretched ars, waiting to catch the bouquet thrown by the bride at a wedding at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood. Some women wear long flowered bridesmaid dresses, three women are dressed in white dresses of a similar design, one wedding guest wears a black jacket trimmed with faux fur, and another guest wears a black checked top and red checked pants. Two little boys stand to the right, looking on.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125008/
[Bridesmaid and groomsman at wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center, about to kiss]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of a Hispanic bridesmaid and groomsman at a wedding at the San Jose Community Center in Montopolis. The couple is seated at a table, apparently about to kiss. The bridesmaid is wearing a flowered dress. The groomsman is wearing a tuxedo with a ruffled shirt and a boutonniere tied with a pink ribbon on his lapel. A woman's hand rests on his right forearm at the left of the photograph. A longneck beer bottle and paper cup sit on the table in front of the couple.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125010/
[Bridesmaids, groomsman, and other wedding guests seated at wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of three bridesmaids wearing flowered dresses and short veils and a groomsman with shoulder-length hair, a moustache, and wearing a black tuxedo with a ruffled shirt, along with other wedding guests seated at wedding reception at the San Jose Community Center in the Montopolis neighborhood of Austin. They sit with other wedding guests around a long, rectangular table. Several disposible paper cups sit on the tablecloth.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125007/
[Elazar Tamayo and his wife, Lupe Tamayo]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of Elazar Tamayo and his wife, Lupe Tamayo, a Hispanic or Latino couple, visible from the waist up, standing in front of a building. Both appear to be in their late 50s or early 60s. He has salt-and-pepper hair and a moustache, and she has dark, wavy chin-length hair. She is wearing a sleeveless, open-collar cotton shirt, and he is wearing a button-front shirt with elbow-length sleeves. The 1976 Austin City Directory lists their residence as 1100 Lilly Terrace.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125003/
[Female clothing hanging on a rope line in a Travis County Jail cell]
Date: 1970~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a cell area in Travis County Jail with rope laundry line strung across the bars. The rope holds items of women's clothing, including a flowered shirt, embroidered pants, and other tops, pants and nylon underwear. On the floor below there are four pairs of boots, pairs of sandals, house shoes, and other street shoes. The cell behind the bars is stuffed with a variety of clothing items.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125076/
[Female Travis County Jail worker offering books to a female inmate]
Date: 1970~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a female Travis County Jail librarian and female inmate. The librarian, on the left, is wearing a print shirt with pointed collar and holding three paperback books on top of a box of assorted paperbacks. The female inmate, who is on the right, reaches through the bars as she looks at the selections offered. Her hair in plastic and foam rollers is. A sewing machine and wooden shelving are visible in the background of the photograph.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125077/
[Formal portrait of Travis County Sheriff Truitt O. Lang]
Date: 1970~
Creator: University Studio
Description: Photograph of Travis County Sheriff T. O. Lang, who served from January 1, 1953 to December 31, 1972. He was the longest serving sheriff in Travis County history, and died April 28, 1977. This head-and-shoulders portrait is part of the Austin Citizen Collection. It shows Sheriff Lang dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt and a patterend tie, wearing glasses, with greying hair, and seated in front of a light neutral background. Lang also has a Masonic pin on his left lapel.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125075/
[Groomsmen wait to catch the garter at a wedding at the San Jose Community Center in Montopolis]
Date: 1970~
Creator: Penzenstadler, Joan
Description: Photograph of several groomsmen wearing black tuxedos and ruffled shirts wait for the garter toss at a wedding at the San Jose Community Center in Montopolis. Two men hold the stretched garter up in the air. A group of women, including two young girls wearing long dresses, look on in the background.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125009/
[Man looks at body wrapped in blanket on gurney in high security Travis County Jail cell area]
Date: 1970
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a man with long sideburns and wearing a jacket, possibly a doctor or medical examiner, standing over a body or corpse completely wrapped in a blanket on a collapsible metal gurney. The location is the Travis County Jail in an area where the doors are solid and a have small barred window with a hinged cover. A man wearing a uniform, possibly a guard, is partially visible behind the gurney.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125069/